Article ID: CBB000053378

Class: Stories of concepts: From ordinary language to scientific language (1993)

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Description “Before becoming a construct of botany, mathematics, logic, geology, economics or sociology, the concept of `class' was a construct of ordinary language, corresponding to what might be called `folk categories'. The present article is an attempt briefly to tell the tale of this process.”


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Authors & Contributors
Riordan, D. Vincent
Degroot, Dagomar
Nicola Porru
Currie, Adrian
Parr, Jessica M.
Wiltgen, Richard
Concepts
Social relations; social groups
Evolution
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Philosophy of science
Social networks
Weight management
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
17th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
British Isles
Svalbard, Norway
Danube river
Sardinia
United States
Europe
Institutions
Stanislaw Leszczynski Academy
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